Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill

One thing that Goodwill is starting to do, as I suspect everyone will is to start to refuse CRT donations. Some idiot in the gooverment decided that they are toxic waste, and should not be included in the normal disposal stream so now in CA we cannot simply discard them. This sounds good, but as usual with government solutions was not well thought out. By requiring you to pay a fee to simply dump a CRT that you don't want, you've given the user the choice of being good and paying it, or finding a back yard or vacant lot and tossing it. I predict that now, rather than having people turn them into goodwill on a donation, and having goodwill (and other such places that take in things like this) unwanted systems will now start to appear in places where they can do harm if broken open. I understand that with motor oil and other stuff you wanted to keep it out of the refuse stream, but with most trash areas no days having recycling, you could have dumped it in the recycle bin and had it go thru a center that at least would allow them to be plucked out of the landfill stream. And you could actually pay places like goodwill to take them, and get them ready for recycle by doing such things as breaking out the crt's and electronics and putting them in separate streams of refuse, with only the CRT's going to a special place, since the electronics have much more value. But right now, I don't think that even here in Orange county where there is a pretty enlightened goodwill operation, there is a recycling operation like this going on, as they have had to start refusing them. so, soon you all will discover that you are all horrible hoarders of toxic waste, in line with gun owners who have "arsenals" and will make the headlines when you croak, and your old computers have to be disposed of by unenlighened relatives, who discover that they would have to pay a fortune to dispose of all of them. Jim Adrian Graham wrote: